Sometimes my screen just goes black

by **GayandProud** on Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:56 pm

it just goes off and up comes the box that says "monitor going to sleep" Ihave to unplug the computer and start it again.

does anyone know why that might happen - its very weird.

by **PlasticAnnArbor** on Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:13 am

well that is the power saver . and mostlikley one of two settings
for a desktop :
it might be a setting for the monitor or a desktop setting for hibernation and sleep .
For a laptop check the power saver setting.
The exact place to look depends on what operating system you are using
Windows xp
Windows Vista
mac 10.1
Linux with Gnome
Linux with KDE
Linux with E17

by **GayandProud** on Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:31 am

Its a desktop and its windows xp

by **coolman** on Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:33 am

You have to throw away the computer, monitor and the desk that it is sitting on. Buy two new computers and reinstall everything. When one of the new computers has this problem you must turn the other one on, throw the first one away and go back to step 1.

There is no other way around this, I'm afraid.

by **GayandProud** on Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:39 am

Excellent ! Sound advice Mr coolman

But I only have 50p and a Mars Bar and Im eating bread dipped in vinegar. Will that do in payment for two new computers?

by **coolman** on Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:43 am

GayandProud wrote:Excellent ! Sound advice Mr coolman

But I only have 50p and a Mars Bar and Im eating bread dipped in vinegar. Will that do in payment for two new computers?

by **honbuns** on Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:55 am

50p and a mars bar, reckon you wont need the mars bar for an all singing/dancing multprocessor/quad core pair of machines.

by **GayandProud** on Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:24 pm

seriously guys - does anyone know why the stupid screen would just go black? Its doing my nut.

by **PlasticAnnArbor** on Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:52 pm

take a look at the screensaver
I am currently NOT running xp so from memory...
I will repost once i reboot into xp and give you step by step
------
ok i am back and on win xp
for the screen saver and power setting
two ways to get to the same dialog window
1)
right click on the desktop and select Properties and click on the ScreenSaver tab
2)
Start / Control Panel /Appearance And Themes
then click on Display ( lower half of the window) then click on the screen saver tab
---------
once at the ScreenSaver tab --see screen shot
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2025/screenshotij7.jpg
make sure that none is set for screensaver
then click on " power"
click on "power schemes" tab
in the dropdown menu , near the top , select " always on "
and make sure that all 3 settings below are set to never
------
click on the " hibernate " tab
and make sure there is NO CHECK in " Enable Hibernate"
------
Then REBOOT

by **The Chairman** on Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:34 am

GayandProud wrote::lol:

seriously guys - does anyone know why the stupid screen would just go black? Its doing my nut.

Maybe its been in the sun for too long...

by **GayandProud** on Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:45 am

PlasticAnnArbor wrote:take a look at the screensaver
I am currently NOT running xp so from memory...
I will repost once i reboot into xp and give you step by step
------
ok i am back and on win xp
for the screen saver and power setting
two ways to get to the same dialog window
1)
right click on the desktop and select Properties and click on the ScreenSaver tab
2)
Start / Control Panel /Appearance And Themes
then click on Display ( lower half of the window) then click on the screen saver tab
---------
once at the ScreenSaver tab --see screen shot
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2025/screenshotij7.jpg
make sure that none is set for screensaver
then click on " power"
click on "power schemes" tab
in the dropdown menu , near the top , select " always on "
and make sure that all 3 settings below are set to never
------
click on the " hibernate " tab
and make sure there is NO CHECK in " Enable Hibernate"
------
Then REBOOT

WOW thanks I did exactly as you said - it was set to hibernate and go off for some reason ! I put all the settings exactly like you said. Im now going to re-boot.

THANKS I really appreciate your help !!!!

by **PlasticAnnArbor** on Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:47 pm

having the screen / monitor turn off after 15 min and the computer go into Hibernate after 20 min is a" normal " factory setting .One that i have always disliked

by **GayandProud** on Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:06 pm

oh dear - it just did it again - this time I could see a small area of screen down the left hand side - and I pressed Control Alt Delete and it came on again only in Huge format - with a box which said "nv4 - disp display has stopped working."

:shock:

I re-booted and its back on but for how long

by **PlasticAnnArbor** on Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:55 pm

an "nv4" error is mostilkey a problem with your graphics driver ,seeing as your screen resolution dropped to 800x600 or 600x 480
do you know the model of your Nvidia card ( an nv error tends to be a nvidia card) .
i am assuming that you are using the partly disabled,rewrote, mangled one that MS auto installs and updates from " auto update "
I can walk you through uninstalling the POS( piece of sh*t) driver MS gave you and install the correct one
if you don't know the make let me know and i will post back with the instructions on how to find out .

by **PlasticAnnArbor** on Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:46 am

go to
Start /Control Panel / Performance and Maintenance / System
click on the " Hardware " tab
then the " Device Manager " button
look for " Display Adapters " ( near the top of the list )
and click on the " - " ( to the left) to expand the list
double click on the name of the card
and click on the " Driver " tab
and look for " driver version " , something like 175.19( the newest one)

and post the name of the card
ex. GeForce 8800 GT
and the driver number

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